If I become a flittering ninny,

[synapticjava]

It's because I'm reading The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault. I'm on page 8, and I have to read to page 130 by tomorrow evening. I've been reading for over an hour. This is seriously difficult stuff, theory aside. I feel like a short-bus rider trying to get through it. If you're unfamiliar with Foucault or queer/sexuality theory at all, I offer you a quote that I had to reread 12 times before I could piece together it's meaning:

"The affirmation of a sexuality that has never been more rigorously subjugated than during the age of the hypocritical, bustling, and responsible bourgeoisie is coupled with the gradiliquence of a discourse purporting to reveal the truth about sex, modify its economy within reality, subvert the law that governs it, and change its future."

Can someone IM me some Red Bull? I have a feeling it's going to be a long night.

Comments

[wildflowerfever.livejournal.com]

Oh, Foucault.

My high school philosophy teacher thought I'd like him, so he lent me a copy of The History of Sexuality. Isn't that cruel? As if there was any way I would have comprehended that in high school.

I seriously haven't been able to go longer than a semester without seeing The History of Sexuality on a syllabus. As someone in my lit. theory class observed, "academia is part of the Foucult."

[caviling]

If it makes you guys feel any better, this semester I get to read a book by Baudrillard called Forget Foucault.

[(Anonymous)]

Haha.

Actually, Foucault is one of those theorists I consistantly bitch about having to read butreallykindofenjoy.

[wildflowerfever.livejournal.com]

Oops. That was me.

Deep down I think I was ashamed to admit that.

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

Hmm...intriguing.

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

Oh dear god - in High School? I'm a senior in college and I had to use a dictionary for every third word.

LOL. Foucult is right.

Then again - I pretty much detest most philisophical thought.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

And just look at how hot he was.

*snerk*

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

*cringe*